Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book], for conspicuous bravery at Soupir and elsewhere, and was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 18 Feb., 1915]. The Officer formerly Commanding the 2nd Leinsters wrote: "He was such a dear, natural, cheerful boy, and the bravest of the brave. He was my subaltern for the first four months of the war, until I came to this battn., and I want to tell of instances of his bravery. The first one was at Soupir, when he was sent out with half of his platoon. I do not mean sent, he volunteered to go; it was not necessary, but I did not like to stop him--to find out the German strength opposite. Every man in the two section was hit except himself. He ordered those near him back, and remained himself out all day, from 11 a.m. till nearly 6 p.m. with his badly wounded men. He dug shelter pits for them, and got them under cover, although fired at all the time, and finally carried one man in on his back at night, when he met him quite a long way from our trenches. He must have been within 150 yards from the Germans all the time. The other occasion was in our terrific fight on 20 Oct., when the whole battn. had fallen back or been cut to pieces except one coy., and the mainstay of the whole defence was your son's platoon, which made two extremely spirited counter attacks, in one of which they recaptured 300 yards of trenches which had been captured by the Saxons. The Saxons never got round our coy. until 2 p.m. Had it not been for these counter attacks I would have been attacked from the rear at a much earlier hour, and the result, not only to ourselves but to the troops on our right, might have been most serious. My diary tells a better story of these deeds than I can now, and I will have it forwarded to you. Do not think the lad has died in vain; he has gone, but deeds such as his never die, and years after we are dead and gone his deeds will stand out in a bright light among the many brilliant and brave deeds of the war." His yr. brother, Lieut. Guy Young, is (1916) with the Royal Irish Rifles. His elder brother, Robert C. Young, B.L., is a Lieut. in the R.N.V.R. [Illustration: =George N. P. Young.=] =YOUNG, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 282952, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =YOUNG, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4677), S.S. 103445, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =YOUNG, NORMAN MITCHELL=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Scots, eldest _s._ of the late Alexander Young, Director of Alexander Cowan & Sons, Paper Makers, by his wife, Bessie P. Ravenslea, Trinity, Edinburgh), dau. of William and Selina Hannah Cormack; _b._ Edinburgh, 23 Aug. 1890; educ. Edinburgh Academy; joined the 9th (Territorial) Battalion of the Royal Scots, Aug. 1908, and was in command of a company at the Coronation of King George V. and Queen Mary in 1911 (medal); passed into the Regular Army in 1913, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 10 Dec. 1913; promoted Lieut. Aug. 1914; served in India, Feb. to Oct. 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 19 Dec. 1914, to 23 April, 1915, on which date he was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres; _unm._ He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. His commanding officer, Col. (now Brigadier) D. Callender wrote: "He was so brave always, so devoted to his duty, such a favourite with both officers and men, that he will be the greatest loss to the regt. In all my 28 years' experience I have never met a young officer who promised so well. He was so keen, so absolutely reliable that I do not see how I can ever replace him. He was hit by a shell, killing him outright, so did not suffer at all"; and again: "He was one in a thousand. I had some time before recommended him for the Military Cross for his constant good word and bravery. He so thoroughly deserved it"; and Private J. T. Devlin: "Your son, Mr. Young, joined my company when he came out to India; when we were ordered for active service he took charge of our platoon, and I took over Observer to him and was by his side when he was killed. My job in the trenches was to go with the late Mr. Young wherever he went, and believe me he was as brave an officer as ever walked on to the field. I may state here that he was known in the company as the best officer in it, and he only missed four days in the trenches, when he went down to Rouen for a draft of new men, and then the men could be heard saying, 'Oh, how I wish Mr. Young was here; you could always trust your life in his hands.'" Capt. Lucas of the 9th Battn. also wrote: "He told me he didn't like burying his men without saying a prayer, and he just made one up as he went along. For his sympathy in this way, these rough lads loved and respected him. I was with them in the trenches at St. Eloi, and I could see very plainly they would do anything for Norman. He was straight, dead straight in his dealings, and had no affectation or false pride about him, and that is what we all like--simple, true, honest, and with a kind and generous heart; to know him was to love him. Already we in the 9th Royal Scots had hoped that in the future he would be our Adjutant, and that shows better than words can tell what we thought of him." [Illustration: =Norman Mitchell Young.=] =YOUNG, ROGER ASSHETON=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, elder _s._ of Archibald Edward Young, of 3, The Green, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Solicitor, by his wife, Cicely, dau. of the late Henry Ashton; _b._ St. Leonards-on-Sea, 20 Dec. 1894; educ. Hill House School, St. Leonards-on-Sea; Royal Naval College, Osborne; Uppingham and Sandhurst. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914, went out with a draft on 8 Nov. and joined the 2nd Battn. at the front, and was killed in action when the Munsters relieved the Indians at Festubert, 22 Dec. 1914; _unm._ Col. Bent, R.M.F., wrote to his father: "Your boy was a very keen and promising young officer and was always ready for a job; as it was, he was quite self possessed and fearless when under fire for the first time and showed a fine example to his men. He died a gallant soldier's death, and the Regt. honouring his memory is proud of him. I wish that he had been spared to us for longer service," and Major Julian Ryan: "Your boy was splendid, and if it is any relief to you to know it, all the officers of his coy. were killed actually leading their men, except. Capt. Pakenham, who was wounded in three places." [Illustration: =Roger A. Young.=] =YOUNG, THOMAS=, Painter, 1st Class, 347000, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =YOUNG, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15465, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =YOUNG, VICTOR HARRY=, Rifleman, No. 1558, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Harry Young, of 34, |